Thursday, January 26, 2012

The law center, which has offices in Chapel Hill, Asheville and Charleston, has represented environmental advocates and groups for 25 years. Today's release is its fourth annual list of places in the South that face "immediate, potentially irreparable threats" this year.

The Catawba, SELC says, faces threats from potentially toxic coal ash ponds at Duke Energy power plants and disruption of stream flows and fish migration by dams. It depicts water withdrawals that might not leave enough water for downstream communities, and unneeded reservoir projects that promote more water use.

None of this will be new to folks who care about the Catawba. Elevated levels of metals have been found near ash ponds at all seven of Duke's N.C. coal-fired power plants, the Observer reported this week, although it's unclear whether the metals come from ash or natural sources.

Renewal of Duke's federal hydro license to manage the Catawba, meanwhile, has been delayed for three years by conflicts over the effects of dams on the endangered shortnose sturgeon.

The Carolinas battled over water from the Catawba before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case settled in late 2010. More recently, the law center questioned the need for a new water-supply reservoir

that a project co-owned by Union County and Lancaster County, S.C., plans to build.

The national advocacy group American Rivers has also listed the Catawba in its annual endangered-rivers roundup.

North Carolina's Piedmont also made the law center's list. Exploration companies are buying leases to tap natural gas deposits in counties southwest of Raleigh. The law center says drilling at those sites could contaminate water supplies. The gas industry, it says, is pushing state legislators to lift a state ban on the drilling technique, hydraulic fracturing, that could exploit those deposits.

That's brillant 3:42, maybe you can start with your family? And leave it to this paper to source the Southern Environmental Law Center who only happen to be as far left as it gets. Fair and objective as always.

Unfortunately, we'll just keep multiplying until the planet's just one big sewer. As long as people interpret "be ye fruitful and multiply", the wrong way, they'll just keep having their blessed little babies. They'll spread out their over-fertilized, manicured, and sterile lawns to the water's edge. If people really did believe in a grand designer, they'd have more respect for what he/she designed instead of just trample all over it and curse those who want to take care of it.

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I am wondering if there are any types of aquatic plants that have the capacity to leach the metals out of the water? I know plants use certain things in water. Might there be some that can remove these metals?

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